Short Circuits

It short-circuits skill acquisition by knocking one or both parents out of school. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fire caused by exploding gas cylinders, electric short-circuits, and fire-arms, among other causes, accounts for about 7% of accidental deaths in India every year, according to National Crime Records Bureau, a federal government body. ❋ Krishna Pokharel (2011)

Psycho-Electric specialist Dave Voltresistor said that many of the Prime Minister's recent decisions could be explained by the embedded objects, explaining, the likely explanation is that the metal is is causing short-circuits between the synapses, leading to erratic moods, occasional incontinence poor judgement and megalomaniacal episodes. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Even when the director achieves brilliance, as he does in the closing scene when Portman completes her transformation from virginal white swan to predatory black swan, he short-circuits it with an ending that inspires just as much eye-rolling as eye-raising. ❋ Rob Kirkpatrick (2011)

As for the dog poo comment I made, it certainly is relevant, because the fact that one can point at dog poo and say, "this is now art" changes the ENTIRE art game, and short-circuits any discussion about what is and what is not art, which was my point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To preclude light rail on this bridge now short-circuits the long term transit planning process for our regional system and makes it very likely that we will be standing in crowded buses stuck behind drawbridges in the year 2030 and beyond. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because venison resonates with the current slow-food movement, and locavorism, the hip new mantra of community-based consumption that short-circuits the burning of fossil fuels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The design of the heating systems on many Boeing planes built before 2004 are prone to short-circuits and can cause related problems ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)

The genes that create these short-circuits are more nuisances than threats to survival, and so have been preserved by evolution. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

Electrical short-circuits burned parts of cockpit windshields on two Boeing 767 jets in recent weeks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They know, as Mullen said in his testimony on the Hill, that this is much riskier, it brings with it a much higher chance of failure, and it really short-circuits a strategy that the president himself set out only 18 months ago. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Liquids can cause short-circuits, short circuits damage components, no power means that possibility is reduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Serious electrical short-circuits cracked or burned portions of cockpit windshields on a pair of American Airlines jets in the past two weeks, ratcheting up concerns about such hazards potentially affecting thousands of Boeing Co. aircraft. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)

Being reactionary is disprefered in so far as moralistic reaction short-circuits ethical critique (see “The Absence of the Abject” post). ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Your brain's amyglada short-circuits; you lose the ability to make good decisions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So when faced with a diet plan that denies me any number of customary delights, my brain short-circuits, my taste buds howl, and my will (which was not all that strong to begin with) begins to crumble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Person 1: Did you hear about Jerry making no sense yesterday? Person 2: Yeah. He short circuits way too much. Larry: [Why the fuck] are you talking [about me]!? Goddamn [it guys]! ❋ Dark Artist (2018)

When I was learning this crap in school a few years back we constantly short circuited all our shit toghether to create huge [sparks] that [whooped] the [batteries] in minutes. ❋ Gumba Gumba (2004)

Not as many people seem to remember [Short Circuit] as [the Matrix], it might be that it didn't have enough [special effects] for some people. ❋ The Original Agahnim (2022)

Dude, this girl is [pissing me off] so bad, [im gonna] [short circuit] her tonight. ❋ Bojob (2009)

[I love] [the Song] Short Circuit It's Very [Electronic] ❋ Retard-o-tron 2012 (2010)

When he [short] circuited me, it [felt] like cool [ranch]. ❋ Princess Douglyn (2018)

“Dude Alex got short circuited after he tried snorting [battery acid] and [muzzle-loading] the shit in his [dickhole]. Now he dose t even know how to breathe.” ❋ TexasTittyTantrumTeardown (2019)

[Johnno] was [engaged] testing out a [Bombay Short Circuit] in the shower. ❋ Johnny Flange (2022)